Glass / Wear 2018 - 2019

When I walked into Wheaton Glass Studio for the first time Skitch was blowing down a long tube to form a red-hot bubble from a bit of molten glass. I watched him work with gravity and centrifugal force. I watched as a solid become liquid become solid. I was hungry to try out this new crazy material. New to me that is, as an artist who works in wood and paper and plaster and ink. Mesmerized by this magical material that transforms itself so radically; Wheaton offered me a chance to be a beginner again. 

Over the past year the experience of sensual glass forms inspired this series of new works. I strive for a balance of functional and poetic. Wearable, they ambiguously refer to our body and our senses. Bodily organs, that which emanates from our body that is invisible, containment vessels, animal bladders, and physical extensions of voice and clothing. Breath/Breathe makes permanent the breath of the glass blower who created the work. 

Wheaton Arts invited me to “play with fire”. To act in a way that is dangerous and risky. But that’s exactly what has birthed new ideas and exciting new directions.